Sandy and Beaver Canal

From the time of its opening, however, its middle section had repeated problems and ultimately fell into disrepair.

[2] At a meeting in Waynesburg, Ohio, in 1834, the canal promoters decided to go ahead without the Philadelphia backing.

Hother Hage and Edward H. Gill were hired to engineer the project, and made changes to the Douglas plan.

The middle division from Kensington to Lockbridge had two tunnels, and two reservoirs and was 14 miles (23 km), all at 1120 feet.

Aside from the reservoir collapse in 1852, the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad was built that year,[3] taking business away.

Only 0.75 miles (1 km) of this privately funded canal lay in Pennsylvania; the rest was in Ohio.